WiMax

URL hack yields details on Sprint's Xohm WiMAX launch

John Cox — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:18:56 -0400

Engadget Mobile has some details of this month's scheduled launch of the Sprint-Clearwire Xohm WiMAX launch. The details were dug up by an Engadet fan, named Leo, who was able to do some exploring of what was said to be Sprint's MyXohm Website (which apparently is no longer showing up). Many of the pages and links were simply placeholders or filler text, but according to Engadget the site said that the Xohm mobile WiMAX service will deliver 2-4Mbps for downloads and 1-3Mbps for uploads.

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beware the smiling tiger he smiles because he is eyeing his next dinner

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:40:29 -0400

Motorola saved getting into the farse called 3G, good for them a technology that favors subscribers that live next to the transmitters and are happy to have continuous network congestion and outages. Motorola is taking 4G WiMax with mobility to the MAX. This strategic move will put Motorola ahead of the competition. Appearing to sleep through 3G and sharpening its claws for 4G has the Tiger more than prepared to feast in the new Mobile Broadband World leaving operators who swallowed teh HSDPA 3G Hype with a mouthful that they cannot swallow or afford to spit out. 3G will suffer the same fate as ISDN in North America, a long slow painful expensive death. Where will "Hello Moto " be in the end? still smiling!

Alvarion

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:15:16 -0400

they forgot to mention Nortel will use Alvarion key products for this installation, but this doesn't mean much for alvarion anyhow.

Can't see the trees for Forrester's Smoke

Schratboy — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:58:11 -0400

The market will determine when something is ready for prime time and NOT these self-important extortion artists. You gotta subscribe to their research and buy their products, kiss their analyst rear-ends so they can "bless" the market. Really, when will people start seeing these people for what they are?

True Broadband is Coming For Business

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:00:35 -0400

Whether it's in a year or two, whether it's WiMax or LTE, true broadband is coming to enteprises. blog.tmcnet.com...lte-wimax-for-incumbent-carriers.asp

One or two more years before WiMAX will be hot

Cisco Subnet — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:52:52 -0400

Don't hold your breath for WiMAX, says a story in Network World. True, WiMAX recently got a couple of boosts which brought it off its death bed. (1) Last month, Sprint and Clearwire finally struck a deal to combine their WiMAX businesses. 2) Earlier in June Cisco and Intel gathered up a handful of other companies to share and sell WiMAX patents.) But it isn't on track to be a big influence on enterprise networks in 2008.

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Nortel picked LTE because they were DE-SELECTED from WiMax

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:33:42 -0400

The WiMax biz went to Motorola, Samsung and Nokia....Nortel was never even a player. Boo-hoo.... www.networkworld.com/news/2007/032706-should-nortel-exit.html They are also in bed with Verizon and will support anything they do.....like tell the world WiMax is bad, LTE is good, to further Verizon's business agenda. What they don't tell you is that the carriers (Verizon, AT&T) fear WiMax because it will be an OPEN standard. This is why Google is behind it and Verizon is not. Verizon wants a "locked down" market where all devices are controled by Verizon. Clearwire & Google want an open market and don't care......just login to the WiMax network with whatever divice and pay a fee for usage of the network and Google gets the portal and eyeballs for their ads.

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WiMAX in the league of WiFi and Bluetooth

Amitabh — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:41:24 -0400

When Wifi modules were introduced in 2003, no one had predicted that a Laptop or a PDA / Mobile without WiFi will be unthikable within the next 5 years! But we are at that point today. The prediction about mobile WiMAX is just the same- it will be omnipresent in all laptops and mobile computing devices by 2010. Will it replace WiFi? Perhaps not, but there would be roaming between WiFi and WiMAX. It is good that such a preview happened at Taiwan, a markrt which has understood the true value of WiMAX and is its largest user through the M- Taiwan program. http://www.wimaxbook.net

WIMAX and LTE- Lean towards the rainbow on the Horizon!

Amitabh — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:19:01 -0400

WiMAX and LTE One of the most common issues of discussion one finds today in either WiMAX or 3G fora are the technology growth path, will it be LTE or Mobile WiMAX? In fact this question has also led to a considerable debate amongst the regulators in different countries as it has a bearing on the way future resources such as spectrum need to be allocated. It must be said at the outset that the LTE is the path most carriers ( 3G and CDMA) are planning to follow for the present, at least till they can see something better in Mobile WiMAX. All the carriers have been following the 3GPP ( and 3GPP2) upgrade paths, which now at HSUPA and EV-DO will take them to LTE and UMB.

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Wireless versus Landline and Cable

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:46:17 -0400

Facing the Sundance reality NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USA The month that we’ve spent pouring over the questions of WiMAX that the Sprint/Clearwire deal raised might have been better spent talking about Sundance and ... Well keep pouring! This may have nothing to do with what you said but there it is: What is the cost associated with transferring data/voice/video between two points A and B, for the three different flavor of Broadband? Cable, Landline, Wireless including the equipment on both sides? After answering the question above what are the advantages and potential revenue of each flavor?

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WiMAX: What is Intel Thinking?

Craig Mathias — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:13:04 -0400

Intel will shortly announce its long-awaited "Montevina" Centrino chipset that includes WiMAX functionality. While this is an obvious direction for Intel to go, I'm left scratching my head a little over this one. I have never advocated buying a notebook with a built-in WWAN adapter; that's just too much of a lock-in to a network that might not be the right choice everywhere - and you get to pay for it with hefty monthly charges whether it works for you or not. In the case of WiMAX, which will have only limited commercial availability this year, such a lock-in would be counterproductive for those who travel beyond an area with service availability.

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Can WiMAX be saved?

Cisco Subnet — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:04:37 -0400

Cisco's participation in this group is perhaps a sign that the troubled technology may survive its current woes. WiMax has been called unreliable and untested and now it must best rival technologies such as High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) and Long-Term Evolution (LTE) technologies.

Cisco to join WiMAX patent-sharing group

Cisco Subnet — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:01:52 -0400

Cisco Systems is expected to announce on Monday that it will be joining an initiative to jumpstart WiMax innovation through the sharing of WiMax patents, Computerworld reports. The players involved include Clearwire, Sprint Nextel and three WiMax equipment providers, Alcatel-Lucent, Intel and Samsung, the story reports. It says:

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What will Barry West Announce at WiMAX World Congress 2008? ( June 17-19)

Amitabh — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:11:59 -0400

With the JV under the wraps, new partners like Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Google and others,and the success of trials in Baltimore-Washington having been announced, one would imagine the scene to be quiet for time till the new partners settle down. But the Keynote of Barry West at the WiMAX World Congress on June 17 may be a forerunner of major changes the industry is set to see in the Year of the WiMAX in 2008. Those who know about WiMAX know that it can support much more than what 3G can provide.Will the new announcements signify how the WiMAX industry will go straight into applications with rich video,audio and multimedia? Or is it going to be a much closer look at the new devices and their capabilities? It will be an interesting event to watch,

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WRC 2007 inclusion of WiMAX as air Interface could be a pain for many!

Amitabh — Fri, 30 May 2008 02:41:39 -0400

There was general cheer in the WiMAX camp when the OFDMA-TDD was accepted as one of the approved air interfaces under the IMT-Advanced. Mobile WiMAX thus became one of the technologies using which 3G mobile services could be provided. It was considered an important development also because of the impact in Europe which had sharply divided bands for IMT-Advanced and WiMAX making it difficult for WiMAX operators access to the 2.5-2.69 GHz and 2.3-2.4 GHz bands. However varied effects are now being seen across the world, leading one to wonder if a new virus has not been born. For example in UK, Ofcom the regulator is being sued for planning to auction the 2.5 GHz spectrum for WiMAX by T-Mobile, which would rather see it part of the IMT or LTE services.

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WiMAX will Shake up the Video Market as well

Amitabh — Fri, 30 May 2008 02:03:08 -0400

The CEO of Comcast recently revealed the strategy behind the reasons why his company invested $1 Billion in the Sprint Clearwire JV. It turns out that the flawless delivery of Video while travelling at 50 Mph, including handoffs ultimately weighed in favour of going for a new generation technology. The fact that clearwire also has access of 150 Mhz of spectrum completed the vision of Comcast for Mobile Broadcasting With WiMAX . http://www.wimax-home.com

Why WiMAX

Mon, 12 May 2008 12:55:44 -0400

It is not clear, and this article sheds no light, what the benefits to the end user are of WiMax over EV-DO. Even EV-DO service has been hampered by the incredible lack of customer support provided by Sprint and the FAP policy and practices of Verizon, neither of which make them attractive for corporate endorsement or use.

what the?

Thu, 08 May 2008 15:48:51 -0400

what is Redman smoking? Like "only supporting voice via IP" is a limitation? Seems to be the way the rest of the world is moving. TMobile has a whole initiative based on VoWiFi to flesh out their voice coverage. How does LTE handle voice any differently? Do we really think the LTE standard won't experience the same fits and starts and delays, etc that WiMAX has already run through? They're just going to do a "better job" getting that standard off the ground and catch up? c'mon!

Sprint, Clearwire form $14.5B WiMax venture

Wed, 07 May 2008 13:43:16 -0400

God, am I disappointed. The entrenched monopolies (Comcast, Time Warner and BrightHouse) have effective killed any "third pipe". There will be NO incentive for them to reduce their prices, now that they have decided to extend their "walled gardens" into the wireless domain. Big Corps 1; consumers "screwed".

Full Speed Ahead for US WiMAX

Craig Mathias — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:04:03 -0400

As I first noted back in January, Sprint is in fact now officially spinning off its WiMAX project as a joint venture with Clearwire (and that's the name of the new company), Comcast, Time-Warner, Intel, Google (that's interesting) and others. This should given the new company enough money to build out many US markets, so WiMAX really is coming to town, perhaps in 2010. Note that LTE should appear around the same time, so any talk of WiMAX having a lead in time-to-market should at this point be moot.

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